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John Levin replied to the topic Emmy Hennings in Spanish in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 3 years agoAnd more Hennings en español: ‘La última alegría’, containing the volume of poetry of that title “Die Letzte Freude” (The Last Joy), short pieces by and about her, and some correspondence. Available in print and in a cheap ebook edition:
https://publicaciones.uclm.es/la-ultima-alegria/
Also, the comic has been translated into German, with the ti…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic Dada on Twitter in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoJust to let you know, in advance of some gexciting news, I’ve set up a Twitter account for all things dadaist:
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John Levin started the topic English translations of Walter Serner in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoAn english translation of Walter Serner’s first collection of short stories has just been published by Wakefield Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
http://wakefieldpress.com/serner_monkey.html
And Twisted Spoon Press (Prague) are due to publish his infamous ‘Last Loosening’ in July:
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John Levin started the topic London: Barbican: Into The Night in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe Barbican in London (in collaboration with the Belvedere of Vienna, a very fine museum) is presenting “Into The Night”, an exhibition on nightclubs and cabaret related to modern art. I’ve not seen it yet, but the Cabaret Voltaire does feature, as does the work of Sophie Taeuber and Hans Arp in the recreation of L’Aubette.
More details…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic London: John Heartfield Exhibition in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThere is an exhibition of some of John Heartfields’s works on in London at the Four Corners gallery until February 1st 2020.
HEARTFIELD: ONE MAN’S WAR
“Revisiting the father of photomontage, John Heartfield. Armed with scissors, paste and acerbic wit, Heartfield used art as a political weapon. Risking his life under Hitler’s Third Reich, he s…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic CFP: New York Dada (Loughborough, UK, 14-15 May 2020) in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoCFP: New York Dada (Loughborough, 14-15 May 20)
Loughborough University, May 14 – 15, 2020
Deadline: Dec 9, 2019
Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of New York Dada
Over the course of the 1920s, Dada became one of the driving forces of avant-garde art production in New York. This cosmopolitan, transatlantic art movement stimulated i…[Read more]
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John Levin replied to the topic Dada-companion gone in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoI hope to have some news about this fairly soon. Hopefully, good news.
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John Levin started the topic Dada-companion gone in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThe very useful website Dada Companion (http://www.dada-companion.com/) has gone awol; I’m currently getting a ‘server not found’ message.
It is available courtesy of the wayback machine: latest snapshot from January this year: https://web.archive.org/web/20190122105909/http://www.dada-companion.com/
Does anyone know what’s happened to the site…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic Grosz & Novembergruppe in Berlin in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoAs part of the centenary events around the German Revolution, there are two dada-relevent exhibitions currently on in Berlin:
Freedom The art of the Novembergruppe 1918–1935, at the Berlinische
https://www.berlinischegalerie.de/en/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/novembergruppe/
George Grosz in Berlin at the B…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic New issue of Dada/Surrealism: Dada, War and Peace in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoNew issue online of open access journal Dada/Surrealism, on Dada, War and Peace
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John Levin started the topic Emmy Hennings in Spanish in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoJust published, a Spanish translation of works by Emmy Hennings, containing her autobiiographical novel Prison, her first poetry collection Ether Poems, and a selection of short pieces from various Expressionist and Dadaist magazines.
This follows a comic book of her life, El Ángel Dada, from the same publisher, El Paseo.
El Angel…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic CFP: Dada Studies as Countercultural Practice, New York, Feb 2019 in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS:
Dada Studies as Countercultural Practice: Intervening in the Art Historical Institution
Session for the College Art Association Conference
New York, New York / 13-16 February 2019
Session Chairs:
Brett M. Van Hoesen, University of Nevada-Reno
Kathryn M. Floyd, Auburn University
Abstract Deadline: August 6, 2018
What can…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic Russian Dada exhibition, Reina Sofia, Madrid. in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoJust Opened:
Russian Dada at the Reina Sofia, Madrid
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John Levin started the topic Query: British Army archives relating to Cologne Dada? in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoPost-World War One, the British occupied Cologne, where Ernst and fellow dadaists run afoul of their censorship. At the very least, the British banned both Baargeld’s 1919 magazine Der Ventilator, and the catalogue for the Bulletin D exhibition. However, I have not found any British military archives holding documents relating to either the…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic Richard Hell on Picabia in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoRichard Hell of ‘Blank Generation’ fame review the recent Picabia exhibition at MOMA:
https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/12/31/picabia-nihilism-and-searching-for-meaning-in-art-in-2017/
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
dada on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThis chapter “Cut-up” by Janneke Adema (recently deposited in CORE) might be of interest: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M64V68.
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John Levin started the topic Conference: Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA conference of interest to dada-scholars is being held in Edinburgh, 18-19 April 2018, on Collage, Montage, Assemblage:
https://collagemontageassemblage.wordpress.com/
Deadline for papers is 1st December.
It’s sponsored by the Dada & Surrealism Research Group at the University of Edinburgh, who are on twitter at: https://twitter.com/DadaSurrealism
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John Levin started the topic Dada Africa in Paris in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe exhibition Dada Africa (which I saw in Zurich last year) has opened at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, and runs until February 19th.
(I felt it was an interesting exhibition, but could have done with some more depth, and taken a more critical eye to the Dadaists practices in this regard.)
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John Levin started the topic Complete run of 391 online in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA complete set of Francis Picabia’s notorious magazine 391 is now online, assembled by Monoskop, at:
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John Levin posted an update in the group
dada on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoNew article: Paris Dada and the Transfiguration of Boredom by Joyce Suechun Cheng in Modernism/modernity Vol 24, No 3, September 2017:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/668652
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